GETORIX THE EAGLE AND THE BULL Ingalls Publishing Group, Inc. 2006 Rome in 101 B.C.E. GETORIX THE EAGLE AND THE BULL by Judith Geary Ingalls Publishing Group, Inc. 2006 CLAYSTONE BOOKS INGALLS PUBLISHING GROUP, INC. 197 New Market Center, #135 Boone, North Carolina 28607 www.claystonebooks.com
[email protected] Copyright © 2006 by Judith Geary All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form. This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fiction or are used fictitiously. Cover illustration and selected interior illustrations by Caroline Garrett. Illustrations from Costumes of the Greeks and Romans, by Thomas Hope. New York: Dover Publications, 1962, from a work originally published in 1812. Illustrations from The Illustrated Ben Hur, by Lew Wallace, with illustrations by William Martin Johnson. New York: Crown Publishers, 1978, from the original edition published in 1901. Cover and text design by James Geary. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Geary, Judith, 1948- Getorix : the eagle and the bull / by Judith Geary. p. cm. Summary: In 101 B.C., Getorix, a fourteen-year-old Celt, is deprived of the honor of being sacrificed beside his father when the son of one of their Roman captors requests him as a servant, forcing Getorix to seek another way to what he believes is his fate. ISBN 1-932158-74-X (hardcover : alk. paper) [1. Fate and fatalism--Fiction. 2. Slavery--Fiction. 3. Friendship --Fiction. 4. Rome--History--Servile Wars, 135-71 B.C.--Fiction.] I.